Bias Check: NCT Edition

Hello, there! I was a day late but here's the part 3 of my Bias Check articles, and this time it's NCT! 🥳 After more than two years since I started to stan BTS, there comes NCT, which I didn't think I would stan because I was really confused with their debut system but I guess you can never really tell so here yah go! ^^

NCT (Neo Culture Technology)

For my third group is NCT. I have known them quiet a long time ago but I started to stan them year 2020 because of SuperM, which is a group consist of members from SM’s boy groups (SHINee, EXO, NCT). My bias in SuperM is Ten, which is a member of NCT and its Chinese sub-unit, WayV. Because of that, I became more familiar with the system of NCT. And then later on, I started to stan them as well with Ten of course as my bias. NCT or Neo Culture Technology debuted in 2016 and is a group that contains unlimited members, which will debut in sub-units within the group. They currently have 23 members in total: Taeyong, Taeil, Johnny, Yuta, Kun, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun, WinWin, Jungwoo, Lucas, Mark, Xiaojun, Hendery, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, YangYang, Shotaro, Sungchan, Chenle, and Jisung. Shotaro and Sungchan were the latest members and they were introduced during the era when I started to stan them. (NCT 2020 or the Resonance era).

The group currently has 4 sub-units: NCT 127, NCT Dream, WayV, and NCT U. The NCT U has no fixed members and anyone of them can be part of it depending on the song.

The NCT 127 is consist of ten members: Taeyong, Taeil, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, Haechan, Johnny, Doyoung, and Jungwoo. The ‘127’ in their name represents the longitudinal coordinates of Seoul, South Korea. They were the first sub-unit to debut on July 7, 2016.

The next sub-unit is NCT Dream, which is consist of seven members: Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle, and Jisung. They were supposed to be the teenage subunit of NCT with a graduation system where members would leave the unit once they reach legal age (which is 20 in Korea, 19 internationally). But on 2020, the system was removed and Mark, who graduated that time went back and the group became a fixed unit with all seven members. They debuted on August 25, 2016.

The fourth unit of NCT is WayV (We Are Your Vision). They mainly promote in China and they are consisting of seven members as well: Kun, Ten, WinWin, Lucas, XiaoJun, Hendery, and YangYang. They are the latest subunit of NCT as they debuted last January 17, 2019. WinWin is a member of both NCT 127 and WayV but he is currently promoting more in China as a member of WayV. WayV is my bias unit in NCT. ^^

Sungchan and Shotaro don’t have fixed units yet but they were part of the last recent comebacks of NCT as a whole, for NCT 2020 and NCT 2021.

Bias: Ten

I didn’t originally have a bias in SuperM but I was watching their contents for Kai and Baekhyun (of EXO) until eventually, I started to notice Ten because of his high note in one of their songs. That’s where my interest in him started and then I learned that he is Thai. His full name is Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul, yep pretty long name but he said that’s common among their culture and that is why they have nicknames and in his case, it’s Ten. I started to watch many WayV contents and I saw that he is actually very loud and sassy when he is with WayV members because he is one of the oldest members unlike in SuperM where he is one of the dongsaengs (youngest). I got really interested in him because he is such a hardworking person. He only had a fixed unit year 2019 despite being one of the first members of NCT. He may seem playful but he actually has a soft heart. I remember seeing one video of him where the NCT had a press con or some sort of fan meeting and the management didn’t announce beforehand that Ten would be included in the members line-up so his fans didn’t prepare any surprise or gifts, maybe even some of them didn’t attend the event. You can see how emotional he was seeing the fans cheer for the other members and he was just standing their teary-eyed. 🥺 I still get annoyed thinking about it now. He also had to learn two new languages (Korean and Chinese) and the other members really praise him for always working so hard. He also cares for his member and he makes sure that no one gets left behind.

I felt happy when he was chosen to join SuperM because it feels like he was finally receiving the recognition and spotlight that he deserves. He was a main dancer but his vocals are also good. He actually came from a wealthy family and it was revealed that they have a zoo in their house with sorts of animals but he remains humble despite all of that. He has dogs and cats but I think he is more into cats. They have one dog and two cats in their WayV dorm whom they treat as kids and that’s one of the reasons why Wayv is my favorite unit among NCT. 😊

Fun fact about him: He hates fruits 🤣 I think he had a bad experience with some fruits when he was younger that made him dislike them at all. But he eats and drinks fruit-flavored food and beverages, just not the actual fruit itself. ^^

Ten Chittaphon once said “Be you, be unique, be crazy – you’re beautiful.” And I live by those words since then. 💚

That's it for this one, once again thank you for reading until the end. I wasn't able to upload this yesterday because I was super busy with thesis and assignments. We're now on the methodology part so we need to work extra hard so we can graduate on time haha.

That's all.^^ I hope you also tune in for the next ones for ENHYPEN and SEVENTEEN. Thank you! 🥰

-glossyberrycraze